North Invades South: Korean War Begins
North Korean forces surged across the 38th parallel to invade the South, igniting a brutal three-year conflict that drew in global superpowers and cemented the Cold War's first major proxy war. This aggression solidified the division of the Korean peninsula into two hostile states, a geopolitical fracture that persists today with no peace treaty ever signed to end the fighting.
June 25, 1950
76 years ago
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